Inquiry of Soldiers’ Deaths Urges Curtailing West Africa Missions
By THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF, HELENE COOPER and ERIC SCHMITTFEB. 9, 2018
WASHINGTON — A draft military investigation into the deadly ambush of American soldiers in Niger in October calls for the Pentagon to scale back the number of ground missions in West Africa, and to strip commanders in the field of some authority to send troops on potentially high-risk patrols.
While United States troops will continue accompanying local forces on military patrols across West Africa and the continent’s Sahel region, the missions will be vetted more rigorously than they have been over the past year, according to two military officials with knowledge of the findings who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation has not been released.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/politics/american-soldiers-killed-niger-investigation.html
